William Wymark Jacobs was an English author of short fiction and drama. He is best known for his story "The Monkey's Paw".
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1902
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The White family receives a mummified monkey's paw endowed with three wishes from an Indian fakir, learning with devastating finality that tampering with fate extracts a terrible price.
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Lighthearted
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Contemplative
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Realistic / Mimetic
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